Tried and Tested

“One morning in Baltimore last October, a 26-year-old named Alexander Laurenson strode into a small white room to have his arm preyed upon by mosquitoes. As requested, he had not showered the night before to make his skin more attractive to the pests, drawn as they are to body odor. The mosquitoes, for their part, had been infected with malaria, a disease that kills over 600,000 people every year.” NYT (Gift Article): Would You Get Sick in the Name of Science? (Before you answer…) “A week on, Mr. Laurenson felt fine. But then, 11 days out, a headache set in. So did nausea. Then, he vomited.” (Sounds like he’s training to be a news curator.)